Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....James Speakman BENSON, 1918

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Daily Local News, December 24, 1918

James Speakman Benson

 In the casualty list to-day appears the name of James Speakman Benson as being 
killed.  The Chester County War Aid is seeking to find his relatives and the 
post office has no record of him.  He is supposed to have enlisted from 
somewhere in the neighboring country, and the friends here desire to procure 
word regarding his family that proper recognition may be accorded.

 

Daily Local News, August 13, 1921

BENSON- Killed in France, on October 4, 1918, James S. Benson, Co. B, 5th 
Machine Gun Battalion.  Relatives and friends of the family also members of 
Bernhard Schlegel Post, are invited to attend the funeral without further notice 
from the funeral parlors of T.H. McFadden, 128 West Miner St., West Chester on 
Tuesday, August 16, 1921.  Meet at 1 o'clock.  Interment at Unionville.
 
Daily Local News, August 16, 1921

With full military honors, accorded by members of Bernhard Schlegel Post, 
American Legion, of this place, the body of the late James Benson, 23, formerly 
of Oakbourne, were laid to rest this afternoon in Unionville Cemetery, the 
ceremony being of the usual impressive character.  The decease was a brother of 
Robert Benson, of Wawa Dairy Farm, and leaves two brothers and as many sisters 
to mourn his loss.  His father died a number of years ago, and his mother 
disappeared soon after his death, and has not since been located.
 
Benson's body has been at the undertaking parlor of T.H. McFadden this place, 
for several days, awaiting the funeral, and services were held there early in 
the afternoon.  They were conducted by Rev. Mr. Markley of Marshallton, and were 
attended by many veterans of the world war, as well as relatives.
 
The body was taken to the western limit of the borough on a caisson, and there 
transferred to a hearse for the trip to the cemetery.  Many members of the local 
post accompanied the body as a guard of honor, the casket being draped with the 
American flag.  There were several floral tributes.